Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University, 1998-present; Director of Public History Program, 2005-present. Courses: Seminar in Public History, Administration of Historical Organizations, State and Local History, Cultural Resources Management, Professional Residency Colloquium, American Environmental History

Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism. University of Iowa Press, 1997.

“John F. Lacey: Conservation’s Public Servant,” in The Antiquities Act and the Foundations of American Conservation, cosponsored by the National Park Service and the George Wright Society. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.

“Spading Common Ground: Reconciling the Built and Natural Environments,” in Public History and the Environment, ed. Martin Melosi and Philip V. Scarpino. Krieger Press, 2004.

Guest Editor, with Shelley Bookspan, Public History as Reflective Practice, a special issue of The Public Historian, v. 28, no. 2 (Winter 2006).